the americans have done their bit we also have finished these procedures but his story can you arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is becoming as real as ever after the russian president science friday biggish and documents. russia's parliament considers a new color coded warning system to prevent future terror attacks this following the deadly suicide last. monday. and as the aftershocks. roll through the greater middle east analysts draw parallels with the last decade's colored revolutions and the post soviet space. as the end of the. this year here in rather difficult one given the turmoil created by the last in the

beginning of the week by now the results in twenty minutes. this is r.t. welcome to the program but it's been a long time coming but finally a key nuclear reduction treaty between russia and the us has been fully approved by both sides president dmitri medvedev signed start ratification document on friday the last step in a lengthy process. has more on this only a form of formal exchange of documents between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is left before the treaty can officially stepped into power that's already planned as we're hearing for the fourth or fifth of february in munich the missile launches. this is

a very significant event for our country due to agreements we have with the united states the americans have done their bit we also have finished these procedures both chambers of our parliament ratified the start treaty certain remarks were taken into consideration to satisfy the parliaments on both sides but the most significant thing is that after the exchange of ratification papers between our foreign ministers it will define the size of cutting nuclear arsenals for the next ten years. speaking on a separate issue president meeting with you've also said that russia is keen to continue the negotiations on the defensive project just awaiting for nato reaction on this proposal but this is a historical deal death third such treaty between moscow and washington the first two or sorry back in one thousand nine hundred one and one thousand nine hundred three with this latest one is set to reduce the number of strategic bombs on both science by over one third so it's a significant step both in the relations between the two countries and in terms of

global security sure the negotiations lasted initially for over a year then it took around nine months for the treaty to be ratified after it was signed by the two presidents of the us congress did make some special statements as they're called are non-binding there will not affect the implementation of the treaty basically the congress outlined washington's right to modernize the remaining city to forces and also. said that the studio not i thought that u.s. missile defense plans after it was ratified by the state congress this week the state duma first ratified it and then the federation council deputies have also made a special statement as a first of all security in moscow's right to step out of this agreement if the writings by u.s. missile defense plans in europe and secondly they've held. lines that the these

recommendations and statements made by the u.s. congress are non-binding and they do not free washington from its obligations doesn't it in the street so these are once again non-binding recommendations and statements they will not affect the actual implementation of the treaty we're just waiting for the formal exchange of documents now which will officially put it into force and that could happen as soon as early february. reporting that will mean time off the president of the new year foundation here in moscow says that russia and the u.s. will easily overcome differences in interpretations of the treaty if that is the relations remain positive of course there are differences and i think that in the way you. will depend on the overall state of political relations between moscow and washington even the political relations i get some better probably will not.

remember about differences if the interpretations that we cover right now if relations go sour are definitely if these differences will manifest themselves the good thing is that both moscow and washington demonstrated that they are serious. about reducing their nuclear arsenal so they are committed so other. countries probably it will find fewer excuses not to make their own steps in the direction of the non-nuclear rolled off course our arsenal saw still much bigger than done of other nuclear states but definitely demonstrated that we're headed to cover all part of the distance. according to the president of the new or foundation of moscow we spoke to him just a bit about. russia's parliament is considering a new anti terror warning system this following the deadly suicide bombings at

moscow's domodedovo airport on monday president dmitri medvedev has already fired several officials over security lapses which allowed the tragedy to happen. has more from inside the state duma as it stands right now russia does not have a unified system which would allow the country and the security services in the country to act together in unison in case of a terror threat now that the system will be somewhat similar to the american system of warning basically there will be three levels of terror threat which will be imposed in the country first level color coded blue will mean an increased level of a terror attack a second level yellow or mean a high level and the third fire no one will be color coded red it will be critical level also federal security service has proposed that a certain unified governmental body be created in order to act where that where and if any of these terror levels will be imposed on the country just look how much we needed this system in light of the damage of attack you know they're trying to find

the culprits and they will find them and the culprits will be punished some have already been punished but what everyone is seeing is that there was no relevant information and now according to the will we will have to inform the society about the threats facing the russian government has allocated more than one hundred twenty million rubles to help the families of the victims and the wounded some of that money will go towards the funerals which are being held today in moscow and in the moscow region and of course a lot of that money will also go towards treatment of the wounded horse who are still in hospitals more than a hundred people remain hospitalized and are being treated for their wounds which they received in the terror attack and my call the good son a boy has met with some of them devout muslims these two for. lance usually pray five times a day but the domodedovo blast change it all ever since multiple shrapnel wounds bound them to hospital beds they've been praying nonstop. don't leave thing i asked

for is that i never have to witness such carnage again they came to the airport to pick up their reality of flying in from ted you can stand him is the explosion by several minutes i still can't make sense of what happened in the morning and people who did it come out possibly call themselves muslims are true muslims should be striving to help others not killing innocent people those who did it will answer for it before. yet for many of those whose life was damaged by the blast the promise of the almighty is rare earth is not enough the domodedovo airport had already been implicated in terrorist attacks in two thousand and four when two passenger jets were blown up me there is a lot of those you have to teach everyone who is in charge and makes decisions in the company the airport management must face justice. robert a some russians vented their anger with law enforcement for not being able to prevent their attack others through the initiative into their own hands hundreds of volunteers turned

out bad blood than a king stations travel is a first comer and explosion really seemed to prick his conscience because we're going from when something like this happened before i was concerned like everybody else but i never did anything to help but based on our thoughts i had to get involved instead of just bashing our security services and blogs. speculating that while the tragedy at the airport prompted many russians to ask what they can do for their country improving security is still the main thing their country can do for them some avoid r.t. moscow it's now or just turning ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital and police in dagestan say that the number two figure in a militant islamic movement in southern russia has been killed during a special operation. officials say off join the ranks of militants in two thousand and three later training in a camp for suicide bombers in two thousand and four he was put on the federal wanted list russian police exchanged fire with suspected militants after outside

the city of a gun battle started after the suspects who were surrounded in the house refused to surrender. well you are with r t it's good to have your company today and still to come in just a few minutes. only in eighty eight invisibile or an idealogue can see the deal all the wall street has hijacked and watching us a governmental report names those responsible for the financial crisis you americans believe it's likely to make any difference at all. the protests are raging in egypt where angry crowds have taken control of the port city of suez tens of thousands of writers have continued to clash with police in cairo on the third day of violence that. it comes as internet access all across egypt is completely shut down and mobile phone services are reportedly off in some

regions at least seven people have been killed during a time well that's been inspired by the month long chaos in tunisia where uprisings saw its leader deposed. and a cabinet reshuffle and its aussie's alexy ever shifting reports images of angry protesters in north africa bear some striking parallels with other countries. giorgio two thousand three. hundred pounds it sure. did you start on two thousand and five. and egypt twenty eleven i think these are all completely different rules well think again and not only because they're raised fist was one of their symbols if you look more closely you look at the so-called people who are leading this are being

coached in the they're being coached by u.s. intelligence services the same way the orange revolution was in the rose revolution with saakashvili and in georgia a string of revolutions some bloodless. some notes rock the boat soviet space at the beginning of the twenty first century there were a number of common factor is an uprising against the regime rooted in a popular dissatisfaction with standards of living hence the collective name colored revolutions amazingly the outcomes have been quite similar to six years ago key of independence square was the birthplace of the orange revolution it promised a new dawn and major changes for the country but ultimately all aspirations came to nothing. lawyer goody goody sudan is one of those disenchanted with the outcome of the orange make over he says the bright promises of the revolutions leaders have in reality pushed the country into an abyss. and corruption in greece the country

became divided on the. issue was not being changed to the better it changed only to the worse. the next elections revolutionary hero received only five percent of the world the lowest percentage for acting president of the world it was a similar story in georgia where they had the optimism of the rose revolution soon gave way to disappointment and eventually to mass protests their anger with president saakashvili was met with a response that was all too familiar as gas grenades and water cannons were used to quell the unrest and then killed just on the revolution of two thousand and five or so quickly turned sour last year or so yet another popular revolt but those false dawns and bitter lessons are far from the minds of those clamoring for change in north africa. but without danger emerges when the power overturning the government which they thought illegal and autocratic like in the case of tunisia and egypt

does not have a political platform and a government apt to put things in order in the country the danger lies in the personality of those who would desire to use the revolutions which happened in the arab world. we have to take care that the far right or any other forces with an increasingly sticky mood will not take advantage of this situation if those are really people's movements they should not have let anyone into it with their theirs and that's popularity as experts agree that it may take some time before the world will see whether the revolts in tunisia and egypt will change things for the back in these countries just as they have a common opinion that if these uprising this flow europe will be the first to suffer from waves of immigrants let's see russia ski artsy. now you can have your say on that story on our website r.t. dot com so let's check out some of the fear about we've received on our website so far one viewer called fred has been in touch he says the orange and red revolutions

were backed by the u.s. and israel and what's happening in tunisia egypt and lebanon are partly anti american and anti israel policies and then embarrassment to the u.s. that was a comment from one of our viewers named fred so you can get involved in the debate by leaving your comments on that or many of our other stories at r.t. dot com. if. you without a live from moscow for us now are just turning quarter past the hour and u.s. government panel has issued a report which says the financial crisis was avoidable citing in numerous mistakes

behind it and it comes at several months after new regulatory rules were imposed to prevent another meltdown but as artie's at lauren lister has been finding out many say washington will never learn from its own. it wasn't so long ago the world was reeling from a financial crisis and in the financial capital of the world hard hit americans were calling for heads to roll on wall street and then he blamed irresponsible and illegal actions of big with bankers for the economy's near collapse but i get that if you think that if you get down to. it was born from this mess the us president formed a bipartisan commission to get to the bottom of the crisis. it is our hope that together we can rebuild the american people's belief in a financial system the puts americans to work over a year they heard from stewards of the economy the most important lesson of this crisis is we have to end too big to fail they heard from c.e.o.'s of investment

banks anyone who says i wouldn't change a thing i think is crazy. now the meltdown panel believes the answers to this outrage can be found here and five hundred plus pages of their findings it gives of enough room to point the finger everywhere for a crisis they say was avoidable while blame is directed it wall street that's where we are right now the irony is though the new york stock exchange is here that's what you see behind me most of the big banks and investment firms people associate with the financial crisis are even here anymore they're spread out all over new york city so just as wall street has become merely a symbol of the american financial industry so too is washington's condemnation of it like we're seeing in this report the reality is we've seen this all before we've already seen congressional hearings where u.s. lawmakers interrogated bankers we've heard lawmakers threaten those in charge of the economy yet no one on wall street or that was watching over finance has faced

criminal charges no one has really been held accountable and by many accounts nothing has changed about financial practices and now nearly three years after the car. he says the opportunity for this commission to sway public opinion and make any difference to those practices has seemingly passed it by the chip itself the moments those political moments when everything comes together and you can pass this kind of comprehensive reform legislation are these little bubbles and they don't last very long and we missed ours. so for the american people who wanted wall street held responsible these guys have looted the american economy the global economy they may not get the justice they're looking for five hundred pages and a year later a world once sent reeling by a financial system on the verge of collapse maybe no more protected from it happening again i'm not sure that we can prevent it from happening again lauren mr

r.t. new york. i mean time and general the director of the trends research institute says that the latest report is nothing more than a bid to whitewash the culprits. i mean come on only in eighty eight in brazil or an idealogue can see the deal of the wall street has hijacked was it's a whitewash like all the rest of them you know what's going to happen is they say no heads roll you see goldman sachs gets mine they get a slap on the wrist compared to their earnings bank of america gets fined they had dirty dealings no heads roll the only heads of their research roles are we the people and that's the way the deal works the police have become nothing more that enforces for the crime bosses the big guys are off limits don't touch them they have a white shoe a boy's and they can't bust the gangs on the streets it suits up then wiley so who

do they go after they go after us look this has been going on a long time these commissions are nothing more than white washes who's running the commissions the republicans are the democrats the people who take the money from these stock brokerage firms from these investment firms but they have nice language for it they call them campaign contributions could any adult say rives and it's. well let's get some other major headlines from around the world this hour and an explosion killed at least eight people as a route through a supermarket in central kabul it was not far from the british embassy among the dead three foreigners and a child while a six others were injured but taliban has claimed responsibility saying that it was targeting security contractors it comes as violence in afghanistan reaches its worst levels since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one. local residents in

a suburb of sydney were evacuated from their homes after a nearby paint factory burst into flames a series of explosions at the scene were caused by some twenty thousand liters of chemicals sixteen firefighting crews worked to put out the flames which produced huge plumes of smoke there are no reports of casualties at this point and residents have already been allowed to return to their homes. or is now time for the business news with dmitri. very much rory holes on the heels of his economic speech of doubles russia's president dmitry medvedev it's calling for legislation he's promoting a draft bill to create an integrated buy natural service regulator will supervise the financial markets and insurance companies to industries which were previously monitored by different state bodies so that. the regulator will exercise control and monitor all investment to do surance companies it will also determine the rules of their operation eventually the financial regulator will be

responsible for creating transparent and comfortable conditions for the business the respective draft bill has already been disparaged. moscow has moved closer to fulfilling its dream of becoming an international financial center top officials and the business elites have given advice at a working breakfast hosted by sperm bank and stan you're also brings us the latest . pancakes and caviar was served at the annual sperm bank break first it's an annual gathering here in davos of the world's top bankers where of foreign investors and business leaders what's more sco still needs to do to transform itself into an international financial center the head of deutsche bank joseph ackerman said that that was pretty much unique that a country actually openly foreigners what they need to still do he told the story of how at the same petersburg economic forum president medvedev gathered some of

these top bankers from abroad and said that he fully backs them at the height of the financial crisis despite all the bank a bashing going on in the west they hear understand their importance to the world economy and to russia's development and also affirm that he would continue to support them through the crisis now josef ackermann said many thought that the u.s. government was actually against them and still are to some extent and it was pretty surprising to see that president medvedev was so forthright in his backing of bankers there was then a public vote what is the single thing holding back moscow from becoming center for international finance worldwide things like transport infrastructure but by far the winner was corruption and circus again in the new mayor of moscow then came out and said that he was selling dozens of stakes in banks energy companies that the moscow government owns so that business can really get on with it without the interference

of government when it was pretty much who's who of russian and western business elites there was in the russian side there was sent central bank representatives the head of the bank obviously the t.v. troika dialog leading investment bank rubin valid then you're on there for the first time in years you get american european businessmen. coming up to you and really interested and really excited wanting to know more about about russian investment opportunities of course russia is outgrowing many economies across the world and also it's about to sell off around thirty billion dollars of state assets which obviously foreign investors want to get their hands on and when you get a top western banker like joseph ackermann of deutsche bank saying that the russian government gets business and banks in a way that maybe the u.s. government does not you really feel there's a bit of a revolution going on. the first deputy governor of the bank of russia says bank is minimizing domestic operations and putting less emphasis on exchange rate targets

he told r.t. about the bank's plans for managing the ruble. for installation of targets in the flaws of the ground since this is a public target and the story of which of this target i mean now all we mustn't this is a central bank disadvantage and see the dollars to go to some markets and now with the exchange rate for session it's mostly the result of market approach the supply demand underlies the girls markets the president russia's second largest bank in t.v. says he expects net profit to grow by sixty percent this year and a cost and adds that current market conditions can generate further growth he gave r.t. more details. we focus particularly. efficient. that we have waiting for me i. mean business corporate business is more efficient we're definitely will do well but we've heard from the business for. venture growth for

free to use which is a little bit but also with higher margin business. going to the markets now the commerce department said friday us gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of three point two percent. december that's up from two point six percent in the previous quarter but as you can see the stock markets are not really optimistic about this anyway european markets are also down the sell largely unmoved about the g.d.p. data still depressed on the downgrade of japan's so read it raising here in russia final minutes of trading indices are also losing ground tracking other global losses investors. yet again unmoved about this positive it sees g.d.p. data to look at some of these stocks in more detail and you see as i'm leading the four the my six investors are cautious as conoco phillips plans to sell lost two percent of its shares also rushes to monopoly services inquiring into the

justification of the oil product pricing that's also adding as you can see there bank of moscow up eleven point six percent this is as the bank approved the president of bt as the head of its board and the say this effectively means that russia's second largest lender has been given the green light to acquire the bank of moscow which was founded known by moscow city government it was first to express interest in the asset but then alfa bank also claimed it wanted to buy one hundred percent of the net it seems it has lost the race now investors are welcoming the move as you can see. plus group says it will not sell its twenty five percent stake in no snicko which which owns sprue aluminum giant roussel has offered to buy the stake for twelve billion dollars to put an end to the conflict between the two main shareholders. into ross the c.e.o. of g.m. plus explains why it's not selling the stake. because if.

there is no other company of the same quality or in the same possibility for developing i've been holding it for two years. if it's true what they say we've probably made about five billion dollars. but they believe that holden in development over the longer term five ten fifteen years and it's significantly more open to any corporation you look forward to developing. back in one hour bring you the closing figures for friday and for the week in russia.

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